Why won't numbers let me save my spreadsheet?????

Disk Utility can repair permissions without having to reboot the computer (or to shut down running applications). Repairing a Disk, though, does require starting up from a separate disk.

I would still do the copy out recommended by Wayne before repairing permissions, though.

Two other possibilities: Can you Export the file as an Excel file? Can you Save it in iWork '08 format? Either will result in the loss of any Numbers features unsupported in the other applications.

Regards,

barry

To be fair to Apple, MS have had many more years to refine Excel, probably time they started the same process with Word and Outlook, especially Outlook.

Barry wrote:

Disk Utility can repair permissions without having to reboot the computer (or to shut down running applications). Repairing a Disk, though, does require starting up from a separate disk.

I would still do the copy out recommended by Wayne before repairing permissions, though.

Two other possibilities: Can you Export the file as an Excel file? Can you Save it in iWork '08 format? Either will result in the loss of any Numbers features unsupported in the other applications.

Regards,

barry

I said "If the OP reboots his computer the spreadsheet he is trying to save will be lost!"

You responded "Disk Utility can repair permissions without having to reboot the computer (or to shut down running applications). Repairing a Disk, though, does require starting up from a separate disk."

Not sure I see the connection, but thanks anyhow.

@Csound:

Just clarifying that Repair Permissions doesn't require a restart. Perhaps should have sent as a reply to Wayne's post four minutes prior to yours. Sorry for the confusion.

Regards,

Barry

Post the errors, there are many that are meaningless and can be ignored, especially java errors

As long as you see 'Permissions Repair Complete' you're done.

Message was edited by: Csound1

No problem, chains of posts get that way

You do not need to worry about that (provided you see Permissions Repair Complete all is well)

I have the same problem. Disk does not need repair. Permissions clean. I can move the file, same problem. I copy and paste to a new spreadheet, can't save anywhere. The auto backup produces the same message.

I suspect Numbers got damaged. Is there a file I can delete to reset Numbers to default condition?

As I'm not a sooth sayer, I'm unable to guess which is the used operating system.

The described behavior surfaced here and there since at least january 2009.

We never got a clear explanation of this oddity.

Try to export in an Excel file.

You may also try to save as a Numbers '08 file.

Try also to export as csv.

After a system reboot, I guess that you will be able to open the 'old' version.

For safe, Apply a Copy Paste into a fresh document.

This would be useful to retrieve the formulas.

Then, open the Excel or the Numbers '08 or the csv file to copy paste the datas in the cells supposed to store raw datas. The formulas will apply upon the new set of datas.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 15 janvier 2011 21:00:20

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

Sorry to hijack this post, but I found it while searching for my own problem, and it's so similar, I thought it might be better just to reply here?

I have the same saving issue, except that my error message is Invalid argument.

Will not copy and paste into a new spreadsheet, or export, or create a pdf.

Add that my external drive is not showing up when I plug it in to backup.

Thought that the disk repair solution might do the trick, but no luck. No errors listed.

External shows up in disk repair (though not on desktop, or in finder) as unmounted, but won't allow me to mount.

Thoughts?? Help??